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"Reading McKillip is the closest you will come to entering a waking dream."
-Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of the Grishaverse series
World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) has inspired generations of readers with her enchanting, and subversive fiction. This lovely hardcover career-retrospective edition offers McKillip's finest short stories. Featuring an original introduction by Ellen Kushner (Swordspoint) and cover art from frequent McKillip illustrator Thomas Canty, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a must-have for fans of classic fantasy.
Patricia A. McKillip has been widely hailed as one of fantasy's most significant authors. She was lauded as "rich and regal" (the New York Times), "enchanting" (the Washington Post), and "luminous" (Library Journal).
Within McKillip's magical landscapes, a mermaid statue comes to life; princesses dance with dead suitors; a painting and a muse possess a youthful artist; seductive sea travelers enrapture distant lovers; a time-traveling angel endures religious madness; and an overachieving teenage mage discovers her own true name. Patricia A. McKillip was the beloved author of twenty-seven fantasy novels, including The Riddle-Master of Hed, Harpist in the Wind, Ombria in Shadow, Solstice Wood, and The Sorceress and the Cygnet. She received the inaugural World Fantasy Award for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and later received the World Fantasy lifetime achievement award. She was also a three-time Mythopoeic Award winner. Her last works included the novel Kingfisher and the collection Dreams of Distant Shores. McKillip lived in Oregon for most of her life. "The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath"
"The Stranger"
"Lady of the Skulls"
"The Lion and the Lark"
"The Witches of Junket"
"Wonders of the Invisible World"
"Out of the Woods"
"Hunter's Moon"
"The Fortune Teller"
"Jack O'Lantern"
"Knight of the Well"
"Bydley"
"Undine"
"Weird"
"Mer"
"The Gorgon in the Cupboard"
"What Inspires Me": Guest of Honor Speech at WisCon
"Writing High Fantasy" "McKillip's stories are shafts of sunlight in a dark wood, moonlight dancing on seafoam, starlit wonders that settle deep in a reader's heart like a dragon's hoard."
-Charles de Lint, author of the Newford series
[STARRED REVIEW] "Gathering glittering selections from the fantasy great's cherished oeuvre, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a radiant collection of fairy tales and modern fables. In a dragon's tower, too many treasure-seeking men talk past the truest treasure before them. Elsewhere, generations of women who can crochet time and defy storms band together to defeat an ancient evil. In another story, a time traveler wishes that she could change a malicious minister's deadly visions, but is bound by the rules. And in "The Lion and the Lark," a loyal daughter falls in love with an enchanted nobleman, following the fall of his feathers as they wait out a curse. The prose throughout is atmospheric, otherworldly, and enchanting. McKillip conjures whole worlds with light trails of evocative terms: a fortune-teller's tent is "a colorful cave of embroidery, lace, ribbons, flowing cloth" wherein the candle flames weave "a mystery of light and glittering dark"; a "tiny living world within a glass globe" plagues the wizard who stole it from the faerie queen, containing an oak wood, gold light, and trees that "fade to lavender and smoke." Medieval and fantasy settings are well represented, but there are dashes of the contemporary as well. A sensory pleasure from beginning to end, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a must for fantasy readers."
-Foreword
"McKillip's stories are as stately, luminous and tightly woven as figures in the margins of an illuminated manuscript and as full of secrets tremb
-Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of the Grishaverse series
World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) has inspired generations of readers with her enchanting, and subversive fiction. This lovely hardcover career-retrospective edition offers McKillip's finest short stories. Featuring an original introduction by Ellen Kushner (Swordspoint) and cover art from frequent McKillip illustrator Thomas Canty, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a must-have for fans of classic fantasy.
Patricia A. McKillip has been widely hailed as one of fantasy's most significant authors. She was lauded as "rich and regal" (the New York Times), "enchanting" (the Washington Post), and "luminous" (Library Journal).
Within McKillip's magical landscapes, a mermaid statue comes to life; princesses dance with dead suitors; a painting and a muse possess a youthful artist; seductive sea travelers enrapture distant lovers; a time-traveling angel endures religious madness; and an overachieving teenage mage discovers her own true name. Patricia A. McKillip was the beloved author of twenty-seven fantasy novels, including The Riddle-Master of Hed, Harpist in the Wind, Ombria in Shadow, Solstice Wood, and The Sorceress and the Cygnet. She received the inaugural World Fantasy Award for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and later received the World Fantasy lifetime achievement award. She was also a three-time Mythopoeic Award winner. Her last works included the novel Kingfisher and the collection Dreams of Distant Shores. McKillip lived in Oregon for most of her life. "The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath"
"The Stranger"
"Lady of the Skulls"
"The Lion and the Lark"
"The Witches of Junket"
"Wonders of the Invisible World"
"Out of the Woods"
"Hunter's Moon"
"The Fortune Teller"
"Jack O'Lantern"
"Knight of the Well"
"Bydley"
"Undine"
"Weird"
"Mer"
"The Gorgon in the Cupboard"
"What Inspires Me": Guest of Honor Speech at WisCon
"Writing High Fantasy" "McKillip's stories are shafts of sunlight in a dark wood, moonlight dancing on seafoam, starlit wonders that settle deep in a reader's heart like a dragon's hoard."
-Charles de Lint, author of the Newford series
[STARRED REVIEW] "Gathering glittering selections from the fantasy great's cherished oeuvre, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a radiant collection of fairy tales and modern fables. In a dragon's tower, too many treasure-seeking men talk past the truest treasure before them. Elsewhere, generations of women who can crochet time and defy storms band together to defeat an ancient evil. In another story, a time traveler wishes that she could change a malicious minister's deadly visions, but is bound by the rules. And in "The Lion and the Lark," a loyal daughter falls in love with an enchanted nobleman, following the fall of his feathers as they wait out a curse. The prose throughout is atmospheric, otherworldly, and enchanting. McKillip conjures whole worlds with light trails of evocative terms: a fortune-teller's tent is "a colorful cave of embroidery, lace, ribbons, flowing cloth" wherein the candle flames weave "a mystery of light and glittering dark"; a "tiny living world within a glass globe" plagues the wizard who stole it from the faerie queen, containing an oak wood, gold light, and trees that "fade to lavender and smoke." Medieval and fantasy settings are well represented, but there are dashes of the contemporary as well. A sensory pleasure from beginning to end, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a must for fantasy readers."
-Foreword
"McKillip's stories are as stately, luminous and tightly woven as figures in the margins of an illuminated manuscript and as full of secrets tremb